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Title: Indian altar and ruins of old Zuni [New Mexico]
Creator: Mollhausen, H. B. (active ca. 1854), German, artist Sinclair, Thomas S. (active ca. 1849-ca. 1853), lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1854]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
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Description: Male Indian gestures toward religious altar laid out on ground before him. Ruins of stone wall (old Zuni missions?) in distance; two western observers look over shoulders at ceremony.
Printed title (LC). Printed (UL): U.S.P.R.R. exp. & surveys, 35th parallel; (UR): Indian report; (LL): H.B.Molhausen; (LR): T.Sinclair's lith., Philad[elphi]a. Likely from the United States Pacific Railroad Survey in California, under the command of Lieut. R.S. Williamson, in 1853-54.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 23.7 x 30.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5w10104f
BANC PIC 1963.002:0478:07--A
Subject: Expeditions & surveys
Indians of North America
New Mexico
Railroads
Rites & ceremonies
West (U.S.)

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